About 20 years ago, I started driving co-workers within listening distance crazy with constant chirps of “Uh oh!” emanating from my laptop. It was all coming from a nifty little program I’d discovered ...

ICQ, an instant messaging service that was at one time very popular in the US and other parts of the world in the early days of the consumer PC internet, is officially closing up shop. The official ...

Remember ICQ? If you grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, you must have heard of ICQ, one of the most popular messaging apps of that time. But like all good things, its time has come. The platform ...

Instant messaging platforms are a dime a dozen in 2025 - from WhatsApp and Signal to Telegram or Facebook Messenger, there’s certainly no shortage of options for users today. It wasn’t always that way ...

Two servers for the ICQ instant messaging service were cracked yesterday, and at least one Web page was defaced.. Dulles, Va.-based America Online Inc., which owns the ICQ instant messaging service, ...

The Enterprise AIM game plan has been public since last spring when AOL said it was working with Verisign on encrypted instant messaging. The consumer product has been downloaded by tens of millions ...

I really don't like these sort of instant messenger things, but my parents and other relatives have ICQ and want me to use it too...so I downloaded it and hate all the crap with it. I wouldn't mind ...

MIAMI – America Online Inc. has given its ICQ instant messaging service a significant revamping, including the ability for developers to create plug-in applications to extend ICQ’s functionality, ...

Got a Web connection? A browser? Now you can use AOL's popular instant messenger much like you use Web-based e-mail accounts such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

America Online has released a new version of its ICQ instant messenger, its first facelift of the service in a year. The ICQ 2001b Beta v5.15, released Tuesday, offers a new file-sharing function that ...

Two servers for the instant messaging service ICQ were cracked Monday, defacing at least one Web page. Dulles, Va.-based America Online Inc., which owns the ICQ instant messaging service, said the ...